A grandmother was killed and a father and young children were injured after a large fire broke out in their Lower Chichester Township, Delaware County, home on Saturday morning. The large fire started around 7:30 a.m. on the 100 block of Fronefield Avenue. The mother, Shahara Martin, ran out of the house yelling for help while her husband, Ahmad Martin, tried to rescue their five children....

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The Philadelphia skies are ready for another one of nature's light shows this weekend. The annual Geminid meteor shower is expected to peak in the early morning hours of December 13th and 14th, Saturday night into Sunday morning. The forecast for the entire Philadelphia region is for partly cloudy skies making for decent viewing. It will be a cold 35 degrees overnight. So get your blankets and...

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ALBUMS

Neil Diamond---Touching You, Touching Me---1969
Badfinger---Straight Up---1971
Roberta Flack---Blue Lights In The Basement---1977
Joni Mitchell---Don Jaun's Reckless Daughter---1977
Bob Seeger & The Silver Bullet Band---The Distance---1982
C+C Music Factory---Gonna Make You Sweat(Everybody Dance Now)---1990
Garth Brooks---The...

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Hundreds of family, friends, firefighters, fellow first responders, and other well wishers came to pay respects tonight to Philadelphia's first female firefighter killed in the line of duty. 36-year-old Joyce Craig lost her life battling a blaze earlier this week at a house fire in West Oak Lane. Craig was among the first to enter the home and became trapped in the basement when a retreat...

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Police found the body of a Gloucester Township woman today who had been reported missing since last Friday, December 5th and charged a suspect with her murder. The body of 59-year-old Susan Johnson was discovered in a wooded area in Evesham Township near Willow Ridge Park. 30-year-old Miguel Angel Diaz has been charged with first degree murder. Johnson, Diaz and another woman worked...

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University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann participated in a "die-in" protest at a holiday party in her home and the Penn police force is criticizing her actions. Gutmann (pictured) laid on the floor with student protesters when they took over her holiday party this week, symbolizing the Michael Brown shooting by police in Ferguson, Missouri. Members of the Penn police force who were...

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ALBUMS

John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band---Live Peace in Toronto---1969
Ringo Star---Blast Forom The Past---1975
Burning Spear---Marcus Garvey---1975
ABBA---The Album---1977
The Clash---Sandinista!---1980
Venom---Welcome To Hell---1981
The Fall---Preverted By Language---1983
UB40---Labour Of Love II---1989
Cypress Hill---Live...

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A man is dead after losing control of his car and crashing into a wall in Southwest Philadelphia near Lindbergh Boulevard and Grays Avenue in the city's Kingsessing neighborhood. The car was speeding eastbound along the 5100 block of Grays Avenue and drove through a red light when the driver lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a wall of a nearby business. The car flipped upside down and...

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A Philadelphia judge found a man guilty today of first degree murder in the shooting death of an off-duty police officer. Judge Jeffrey Minehart ruled in the non-jury trial that 25-year-old Rafael Jones was guilty of the attempted robbery and murder of 40-year-old Officer Moses Walker Jr in August 2012. Walker had just finished his overnight shift in the 22nd police district in North...

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A new surveillance video is believed to show missing college student Shane Montgomery leaving the area of Kildare's pub, walking toward a bridge over the Manayunk Canal - and vanishing, according to law enforcement sources. A spokeswoman for the FBI task force investigating the disappearance with Philadelphia police would not confirm or deny the existence of the video. Sources said the video...

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